Examines how recent Argentine horror films engage with the legacies of dictatorship and neoliberalism.Argentina is a dominant player in Latin American film known for its documentaries detective films melodramas and auteur cinema. In the past twenty years however the country has also emerged as a notable producer of horror films. Blood Circuits focuses on contemporary Argentine horror cinema and the various cinematic pleasures it offers national and transnational audiences. Jonathan Risner begins with an overview of horror film culture in Argentina and beyond. He then examines select films grouped according to various criteria neoliberalism and urban rural and suburban spaces Englishlanguage horror films gore and affect in punkhorror films and the legacies of the last dictatorship 19761983. While keenly aware of global horror trends Risner argues that these films provide unprecedented ways of engaging with the consequences of authoritarianism and neoliberalism in Argentina.